About me
Jeremy Pataky is a poet, writer, and publisher. The author of Overwinter (University of Alaska Press, 2015), his poetry and essays have appeared in Colorado Review, Black Warrior Review, The Southeast Review, Cirque, Camas, Ice Floe, Chatter Marks, and many others. He’s contributed to Alaska Literary Field Guide: Art, Ecology, Poetry, and each trilogy volume of the water-based poetry anthologies edited by Yvonne Blomer and published by Caitlin Press, among others. Jeremy earned an MFA at the University of Montana and a BA at Western Washington University. He is founder and publisher of Porphyry Press, the most remote book publishing company in North America. He is a former executive director and was a founding board member of 49 Writers, a literary nonprofit in the 49th state. He lives off-grid in a home he built in the boreal forest near McCarthy, Alaska, at the center of Wrangell-St. Elias National Park.